Chapter 134.
Chapter 134 Resettlement
“Count Greiman.”
After listening to Paul’s grandiose words, Erin decided to pour cold water on him.
“Since it’s going to be widely publicized, surely you’ll need a lot of these brochures, right? “
“Of course, the brochures should be described as much as possible in easy-to-understand language, using words that are very common and easy to remember, and in addition to being able to introduce people to hygiene, it would be best if they could also serve as primers, so that with the help of the preachers, the people reading them would be able to recognize some of the words.”
“How, then, is the problem of manpower to be solved? We need a lot of transcribers. An examination some time ago selected a platoon of men who have mastered the rudiments of reading and writing, but they are all already all assigned to work, and I’m afraid that the heads of departments will not release them if they are drafted.”
“Well …… that is indeed a problem.”
Paul closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then he suddenly opened them and slammed the table hard.
“There’s a way!”
He exclaimed, the idea had been swirling around in his head before, only too many things had made him forget about it lately.
“Printing! We can use printing.”
Erin and Lardy asked with curious faces, “Printing? What does that do?”
“Think about it, if we yang-carve the words on a wooden board in order, then apply ink, and finally stick the paper on and then remove it ……”
The two women immediately understood.
Erin said excitedly, “The text is then printed on the paper!”
Paul nodded, “Exactly!”
Lardy was also incredulous, how come no one had used such a simple method before, “Lord Earl, you seem to have invented another marvelous piece of technology.”
Paul’s face slightly reddened, “Invention? Hehehe, overrated, overrated.”
Indeed, once printing was spread, a large number of transcribers were going to lose their jobs, a moment of silence for the Chief Secretary’s former counterparts.
“With this problem solved, let’s continue discussing about the work of the Ministry of Health, you guys record and organize everything I think of right now, I’m going to take the record to the Council of Government meeting to discuss it in detail with the various supervisors, so that I don’t miss anything when the time comes, east or west. “
“Yes, Lord Earl.”
“Soon, Supervisor Hansel will depart for the south, and in addition to continuing to recruit the talents we need, he will also bring back a large number of southern refugees to enrich our labor force, and the Foster family will also send us some refugees.”
“But these foreigners may carry all sorts of diseases with them, and a poorly handled situation will likely infect our locals, and may even cause a widespread plague. That’s why I think the Ministry of Health also needs to take up the responsibility of quarantine, checking whether the foreign immigrants are physically healthy or not.”
“As scholars, do you two know anything about some common diseases?”
Lardy and Erin both nodded.
“Very well, then please summarize your knowledge of what you know about diseases, including ways to identify them, for future study by those in charge of quarantine. Perhaps you could discuss this with Father Anderson, who also knows quite a bit about medicine.”
“Please rest assured, Lord Count.”
Just as Paul wanted to continue, there was a knock on the door from outside.
He called out to the outside, “Please come in.”
Chief Secretary Bernard immediately pushed the door in, and he held up a document bag and said, “The staff department has sent you an urgent document.”
Bernard walked quickly to the desk and placed the file bag on it.
Paul took the document out and took a look at it, and the title of the document attracted him to quickly skim through it. “Gentlemen, celebrate! Our navy has just scored a big victory, wiping out that slippery ‘Mudskipper’.”
Lardy and Erin glanced at each other, seeing the elation in each other’s eyes.
“Great, after eliminating the Mud Loach Pirate Corps, the rest of those small gangs will basically be swept away, right?”
“Your oceanic trade plan, Earl-sama, can finally begin to be implemented.”
“Let me show you the specific battle report.”
Paul handed a stack of documents to the two female advisors, but the only thing left behind were the two sheets of paper at the end.
The two female advisors looked at the battle report next to each other, but when they saw the end of it an angry expression appeared on their faces.
“This group of shameless pirates, how dare they take civilians as slaves, even children are not spared.”
“And locking up the robbed females to do that kind of thing!”
Eileen was especially annoyed, after experiencing things like being forced into marriage by her father, she was indignant that women were suppressed everywhere in this society, and now that she saw the forced prostitution that was even worse than forced marriage, how could she possibly endure it.
Paul, on the other hand, looked as if he was not surprised: “This is a common occurrence.”
This Miss Diaz is really a flower in the greenhouse, not to mention this medieval society where human life is like a piece of grass, even in the twenty-first century of the earth where the rule of law is becoming more and more perfect, similar things are not uncommon.
“Are they not afraid of the wrath of God when they do this kind of harm to heaven and earth? Count Gleiman, please make sure you punish them heavily.”
There was another reason why Irene was so angry, she and her female guards had fled all the way north, and in case they were accidentally victimized on the way, nine times out of ten, they would also end up in the same situation as those women who had been plundered into slavery.
When she thought about this, she was afraid for a while, letting herself live that kind of life is better than dying.
Compared to Irene, although Lardy was also angry, but obviously much more calm, after all, several years of career as an adventurer has allowed her to see a lot of the dark side of this world.
Paul was full of promise: “Of course, I will definitely sentence them heavily. But you two, calm down first, do you have any suggestions for these rescued slaves?”
Erin immediately said, “Send them home, of course.”
Paul asked, “Some of them had their entire families killed by the pirates, and even their real villages were massacred, this part is already homeless.”
Lardy asked him, “What about yourself, Lord Earl?”
She looked at Paul with some concern, slavery existed in this world, although after a millennia-long push by the Holy See, slaves had basically gotten rid of the miserable fate of the ancient equivalent of domestic animals, and were even able to own a little bit of meager property of their own, but legally they still had to cling to their slave masters.
And Count Greiman was authorized to receive the slaves of the pirates he had defeated.
“I mean, we’re recruiting foreign immigrants anyway, so these homeless people will stay and live on here as civilians under the rule of the Council of State.”
Lardy sighed in relief, “Thank you for your kindness.”
Erin asked, “What about the women among these people?”
As much as she didn’t want to admit it, in this day and age, it was too hard for the women of the lower classes to live alone, they had no power or knowledge, and if they wanted to live they would either have to find someone to marry quickly or go into some dishonorable profession.
Paul thought for a while and said, “How about we set up a hospital? Let these poor women go and become nurses.”
(End of chapter)